FBI Admits Undercover Spies Were Planted Within Trump Campaign

Operatives used to spy on Trump campaign officials including Carter Page

Under James Comey's watch, the FBI planted spies within Donald Trump's presidential campaign

Under James Comey's leadership, the FBI planted undercover spies within the Trump campaign to covertly spy on the then-presidential candidate's officials, a bombshell new court filing has revealed.

According to the government disclosed document that was submitted during a lawsuit on Friday, the Federal Bureau of Investigation had used "more than one spy" to infiltrate Donald Trump's campaign in a bid to investigate the president's former advisor, Carter Page.

“The FBI has protected information that would identify the identities of other confidential sources who provided information or intelligence to the FBI” along with “information provided by those sources,” wrote the head of the FBI’s Record/Information Dissemination Section, David M. Hardy.

Meanwhile, Page is currently suing the DNC and its lawyers for defamation over their commissioning of the now-infamous Trump-Russia report, also known as the Steele Dossier, after its author, British spy Christopher Steele.

Page filed the lawsuit in an Oklahoma federal court early last week against the Democratic National Committee and two attorneys, Marc Elias and Michael Sussmann, who are the partners in the DNC's law firm, Perkins Coie.

According to the Daily Wire, the filing by Hardy and the Department of Justice came in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit to gain access to four of the FBI’s applications for Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants against Page.

While the applications were released June 20, they were heavily redacted, and "USA Today reporter Brad Heath has sued for full copies of the documents," The Daily Caller reports.

The filing says the "confidential sources" deployed by the FBI were in addition to Christopher Steele, a former British spy who reportedly authored a dossier on then-candidate Donald Trump.

That dossier was used in order to obtain the FISA warrants, which give the FBI wide latitude in an investigation, including the power to wiretap.

“This includes nonpublic information about and provided by Christopher Steele, as well as information about and provided by other confidential sources, all of whom were provided express assurances of confidentiality,” Hardy wrote.

Steele was hired by his business associate, Glenn Simpson of Fusion GPS, which had been paid by Perkins Coie, the law firm retained by the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign.

Most of the Steele dossier had to do with Trump and onetime Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, but none of that material appears in the FISA applications.

Of particular note are a couple footnotes in the third FISA renewal application, The Daily Wire reported in July.

One footnote mentions that Steele was paid by the FBI for his information, but “suspended its relationship” with Steele after it learned he had disclosed information to the media.

“Subsequently, the FBI closed [Steele] as an FBI source,” according to the documents.

Yet the FBI determined Steele’s information to be reliable because his previous reporting had been “corroborated and used in criminal proceedings,” according to the application.

The FBI states in this footnote that the “incident that led the FBI to terminate its relationship with [Steele] occurred after [Steele] provided the reporting that is described herein."